Best practice: Using virtual machines with the
BlackBerry Performance Engineering Resource Kit

With virtual machine software in a test environment, one machine can
have multiple configurations of a component. You can use a virtual environment
to create alternative test environment configurations without buying new
hardware.

The components of the
BlackBerry® Performance Engineering Resource Kit can be run on virtual machines.
Consider the following information:

A
BlackBerry® Enterprise Server in a virtual environment takes at least 10% more time to
accomplish a task, depending on the task and the hardware used.

When you connect the
BlackBerry Infrastructure and Smartphone Simulator to a different
BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you must delete any stored information in the
BlackBerry Infrastructure and Smartphone Simulator. To do this, you must stop the
BlackBerry Infrastructure and Smartphone Simulator and the current
BlackBerry Enterprise Server components. Start the
BlackBerry Infrastructure and Smartphone Simulator again and then start the new
BlackBerry Enterprise Server components.